Disaster planning and response, including preparations for special populations, will be the topic of a conference April 17-18 sponsored by the Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness at the Yale School of Public Health. “Community Preparedness:...
Scientists seeking link between stress and addiction.Yale psychologist Rajita Sinha started with a simple question posed to a diverse group of academic colleagues at Yale and two other universities.“What is the role that stress plays in the loss of self-...
When nurse Denise Walsh arrived at Redemption Hospital in Liberia, Africa, which is now just emerging from years of civil war, the basic systems that help hospitals run smoothly and effectively were nowhere to be found. Most beds were empty - except in...
To help combat the rising melanoma rates in younger women, a volunteer team of Yale School of Medicine dermatologists representing the Women’s Dermatologic Society (WDS) will provide free skin cancer screenings for spectators at the Pilot Pen Tennis...
President Richard C. Levin has named Professor Michael Donoghue as the first Vice President for West Campus Planning and Program Development, effective October 1.“Michael’s background as both a leading scientist and a museum director makes him uniquely...
With HHMI funding, these Yale scientists are working to solve some of the most challenging biomedical mysteries.When the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has gone looking for biomedical researchers of “intellectual daring” in recent years, one place...
Yale and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will share a $10 million grant to study the way cocaine use during pregnancy affects interactions between mothers and infants.The Yale portion of the study will be spearheaded by Dr. Linda Mayes,...
Sobering childhood obesity rates in New Haven hit home for Yale baseball star Joshua Cox, who helped organize the first annual Yale Athletic Health Fair and Community Dinner, which takes place on Saturday, December 6. The free event, which aims to educate...
A smile may be infectious, but are obesity, smoking and even a headache?Published research has suggested that certain health outcomes are “contagious” in close social networks — that, for instance, people who kick the smoking habit are likely to...
Dr. Samuel Ritvo, a leader in psychoanalysis and child psychiatry who was a faculty member for nearly six decades at the Yale Child Study Center, died on Dec. 3 at age 91.Ritvo’s research interests included longitudinal studies of child development,...